Skyler Burkland's career at Michigan State could be done.Mike Mulholland | MLive.com

EAST LANSING — A news report that Michigan State projected starter right tackle Skyler Burkland is leaving the team on account of injuries would send a jolt through the Spartans offensive line.

Burkland, who missed the first game of the 2012 season with a hand injury and didn't start until the third game against Notre Dame when Fou Fonoti was sidelined with a foot injury, is a junior eligibility-wise who did not play in Michigan State's Green-White Spring Game.

The 6-foot-7, 315-pound Burkland, who hails from Big Walnut High School in Sunbury, Ohio, started the final 11 games of 2012 at right tackle and led the team with 58 "knockdown" blocks, playing 775 snaps last season.

If Burkland's decision is indeed final — Michigan State has yet to confirm the 247 sports report of an anonymous source indicating a pending medical disqualification for the player — it could lead to redshirt freshman Jack Conklin working his way into the starting lineup.

Conklin, a 6-foot-6, 310-pounder from Plainwell, was the first offensive line selected in the draft held by Michigan State seniors before the spring game and held his own throughout the action at offensive tackle.

Sophomore Donavon Clark is another possibility at offensive tackle, as he was selected after Conklin in the players' draft.

Clark, 6-3, 299, saw action in six games and started one last season, at Michigan.

Another offensive line possibility could include the insertion of 2012 Freshman All-American Jack Allen back into the starting lineup.

Allen, a guard and a center last season, missed spring drills after undergoing shoulder surgery following the season.

If Allen moves back into a starting spot on the interior of the offensive line, it could lead to senior Dan France moving back outside to offensive tackle where he played the past two seasons.